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Immune responses and vaccinations

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Anna A. Minta
World Health Organization
2
Andrew Kwok
Chinese University of Hong Kong
3
Alba Garrido-Trigo
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas
4
Jin‐Gyu Cheong
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
5
Kian Hong Kock
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
6
Juliette Lesbats
Université de Bordeaux
7
Matthew D. Park
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8
Sarah Sun
Stanford Medicine
9
Adria D Mathis
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
10
Agnes Bonifacius
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Papers

1
Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2023
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report|2024
156 cit.
2
Hematopoietic aging promotes cancer by fueling IL-1⍺–driven emergency myelopoiesis
Science|2024
120 cit.
3
BCG vaccination alters the epigenetic landscape of progenitor cells in human bone marrow to influence innate immune responses
Immunity|2024
63 cit.
4
Measles — United States, January 1, 2020–March 28, 2024
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report|2024
56 cit.
5
Publication in Cell (2025) [52 citations, W4408613341]
Cell|2025
52 cit.
6
Measles Update — United States, January 1–April 17, 2025
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report|2025
52 cit.
7
Publication in Nature Communications (2024) [25 citations, W4394693286]
Nature Communications|2024
25 cit.
8
Restoring resident tissue macrophages to combat aging and cancer
Nature Aging|2025
6 cit.
9
902 Hematopoietic aging promotes cancer by fueling IL-1α-driven emergency myelopoiesis
Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts|2024
4 cit.
10
Publication in Immunity (2026) [2 citations, W7154261876]
Immunity|2026
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Shai Fuchs
Sheba Medical Center
2
Josephine L. Barnes
University College London
3
Waradon Sungnak
Mahidol University
4
Madeleine Scott
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
5
Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera
University of Pennsylvania
6
Florian Wimmers
Stanford University
7
Natalia Sigal
Palo Alto University
8
Yupeng Feng
Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital
9
Thomas Hagan
Palo Alto University
10
Simon Yona
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Papers

1
Transcriptional atlas of the human immune response to 13 vaccines reveals a common predictor of vaccine-induced antibody responses
Nature Immunology|2022
143 cit.
2
Early human lung immune cell development and its role in epithelial cell fate
Science Immunology|2023
91 cit.
3
Multi-omics analysis of mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after birth
Cell|2023
67 cit.
4
Broadly neutralizing antibodies against sarbecoviruses generated by immunization of macaques with an AS03-adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine
Science Translational Medicine|2023
62 cit.
5
The lifespan and kinetics of human dendritic cell subsets and their precursors in health and inflammation
The Journal of Experimental Medicine|2024
28 cit.
6
Mobbing behavior of songbirds in response to calls of an ambush-predator, the Northern Pygmy-Owl
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution|2023
6 cit.
7
Human Dendritic Cell Enrichment and Their Activation of T Cells
Current Protocols|2023
4 cit.
8
Mass Cytometry Assessment of Cell Phenotypes and Signaling States in Human Whole Blood
Methods in molecular biology|2022
3 cit.
9
Antibiotics, microbiota and the calibration of infant vaccine responses
Nature Immunology|2025
2 cit.
10
Maternal antibody against influenza neuraminidase in newborns: abridged secondary publication.
PubMed|2023
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Mihai G. Netea
Radboud University Nijmegen
2
Qin Ning
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
3
Di Wu
Army Medical University
4
Ron Milo
Weizmann Institute of Science
5
Peter Aaby
Bandim Health Project
6
Christine Stabell Benn
University of Southern Denmark
7
Deborah Mason
Christchurch Hospital
8
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg
Princess Máxima Center
9
Niels P. Riksen
Radboud University Nijmegen
10
Triantafyllos Chavakis
Technische Universität Dresden

Papers

1
Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks
Science|2002
7.5k cit.
2
Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body
PLoS Biology|2016
5.1k cit.
3
Clinical and immunological features of severe and moderate coronavirus disease 2019
Journal of Clinical Investigation|2020
5.1k cit.
4
Clinical characteristics of 113 deceased patients with coronavirus disease 2019: retrospective study
BMJ|2020
4.2k cit.
5
The biomass distribution on Earth
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2018
3.7k cit.
6
Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis
Nature|2011
2.7k cit.
7
mTOR- and HIF-1α–mediated aerobic glycolysis as metabolic basis for trained immunity
Science|2014
2.1k cit.
8
Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans
Cell|2016
2k cit.
9
Bacille Calmette-Guérin induces NOD2-dependent nonspecific protection from reinfection via epigenetic reprogramming of monocytes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2012
1.7k cit.
10
Epigenetic programming of monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation and trained innate immunity
Science|2014
1.7k cit.

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